Faucet



Patented Dec. 16, 1924.

- a faucet of the umrsn STATES JOSEPH A. GOSTELLO,

RATE

OF CLEVELAND,OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CLEVELAND BRASS 1,519,668 NT OFFICE.

7 MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

FAUCET.

Application filed January 5, 1924. Serial No. 684,597.

To all whom it mag concern.

Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. COSTELLO, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Faucet, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in faucets, and pertains more especially to a faucetwell adapted for use in connection with a metal oil-barrel and comprising a casing having an interior chamber which has a fluid-outlet and a fluid-inlet which is surrounded by a seat for a valve employed in controlling communication through said inlet and having a sliding or rectilinear movement from its fully open position to said seat and forceable, upon said movement, into fluid-tight engagement with said seat during" the required rotationof the valve.

One object of this invention is to produce character indicated which comprises simple and efficient means for preventing material or objectionable circumferential displacement of the valve during the aforesaid endwise movement of the valve;

Another. object is to insure the passage of all liquid entering the hot tioned chamber to the hereinbefore men-- tioned outlet.

Another object is to facilitate the manu facture and assemblage of the component parts of the faucet, and to render the faucet simple and durable in construction.

With these objects in view, and to attain any other objects hereinafter appearing,

this invention consists in certain features of and combinations and relative hereinafter described pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical longitudinal section of a faucet embodying my invention and shows the valve of the faucet tightly closed. Figs. 2 and 3 are transverse sections taken along the line 2.2 and line 3-3, respectively, in Fig. .1;

construction, arrangements of parts,

'Fig. 4 isa central vertical longitudinalsection and shows the valve in itsful'ly open position. Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken along the line 5-5 in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a central vertical' longitudinal section, with a portion of the valve in elevation, and shows 'the valve detached.

einbefore men- 1 the valve as havingbeen slid from the position shown in Fig. 4 toward and against the valve-seat before valve tothe right as required to; force the valve into fluid-tight engagement with the valve-seat. Figs. 7 and8 are transverse sections taken along the line 77 and 8-8, respectively, in Fig. 6. Fig. 9 is a view of Fig. 10 is a section taken along the line 1010 in Fig. 6.

Referring to said drawings, A indicates the metal casing of my improved faucet, and said casing comprises a substantially horizontal tubular member 11 screw-threaded. externally and adapted to be threaded into the head of an oil-barrel. Said casing extends upwardly and forwardly from said tubular member 11 and has an'interior chamber 12 having a fluid-outlet 13 formed at the bottom of said casing adjacent the forward end of said member 11. The casing A the rotation of the has an internal forwardly and somewhat valve-seat 15 rearward of and higher than the outlet 13. The chamber 12 extends forwardly and upwardly from the seat 15 and has a fluid-inlet formed by an aperture 16 in and centrally of the rear end wall of said chamber, and said inlet is surrounded by said seat. The casing A also has an internal annular recess 17 which surrounds the seat 15.

My improved faucet comprises a valve arran ad to control communication through the uid-inlet 16 of the chamber 12 and having a metal body comprising a rigid core 18 which is arranged substantially centrally and extends endwise-of and is surrounded by the chamber 12. On the rear end of said core 18 is formed an externally circular head 19 which has bearing in the casing A in any position of the valve and, at its rearward side, has a circular recess 20 tightly occupied'by a disk or member 21 secured in, place in any approved manner and preferably composed of elastic and compressible material such, for instance, as.rubber and arranged to form the face of the valve. On the forward end portion of the core 18 is formed an externally circular head 22 which has bearing in the casing A in the closed position of the valve, as shown in Fig. 1, and said head is provided with a member 23 arranged externall f the casing in. any position of the val\ .-.nd contoured to form a handlefor manipulating the valve.

upwardly facing Said valve has a sliding or substantially rectilinear endwise movement to the seat 15' from its fully open position shown in Fig. 4, and in said position of said valve the rearward head 19 has bearing in the casing A forward of the outlet 13 and the forward f head 22 of the valve is out of and spaced forwardly from the casing. As shown in Fig. 6, the forward head 22 forms a closure for the forward/end of said chamber in-the closed position of the valve. Upon its endwise movement from its fully open ositiou to the seat 15 the valve is capabe of a limited rotation to the right and forceable into fluid-tight engagement with said seat during said rotation of the valve.

The core 18-has a circumferential annular baffle-flange 25 arranged between and spaced from the beads 19 and 22 and shown spaced considerably farther rear-wardly from the forward head 22 than forwardly from the rearward head 19 and contained within the chamber 12 in both the closed'position and fully open position of the valve and hav- The core 18 also has a circumferential-- flange 27 arranged between and spaced from the forward head 22 and the baffle-flange 25 and preferably having bearing, at its outer c rcumference, in the casing A in any position of the valve., The flange 27 has a forwardlyfacing surface 28 extending circumferentially and endwise of the axis of the valve, and preferably-the relative arrangement of the parts is such that said flange, in the fullyopen position of the valve, has bearing in the casing A, in proximity to the forward extremity of the casing.

Thecasing A'is provided, preferably at the top thereof, with a pin 29 spaced forwardly from the rearward head 19 and shown arranged farther forwardly from the valve-seat 15 than rearwardly from the forward extremity of said casing. Said pin is substantially radial in relation to the valve and engages a correspondingly screw-threaded and correspondingly arranged hole 30 formed in the casing'and has a plain inner end portion arranged in the chamber 12 between the forward head 22 and the baffleflange 25.

The core 18 (see Fig. 9) has a surface B which is substantially parallel with the hereinbefore mentioned sliding or substantially rectilinear endwise movement of the' valve and extends preferably from the forward side of the baffle-flange 25 forwardly and endwise of the axis of the valve to the;for-

pin, during said movement of said valve, in.

preventing material or objectionable circumferential displacement of the valve. Prefe erably, the shoulder B, as shown in Fig. 9, rhas the portion 31 thereof which is arranged between the baflie-flange 25 and the rear side of the flange 27 extending farther to the left and Wider than the portion 32 of said shoulder between the last-mentioned flange and the forward head 22, and (see Figs. 6, 7 and 9) said last-mentioned flange extends substantially from. adjacent ends of the left-' hand longitudinal edges of the portions 31 and 32 of said shoulder leftward circumferentially of the core substantially to ad jacent ends of the right-hand longitudinal vedges of said portions of said shoulder. The rear end of the right-hand longitudinal edge of the narrower portion 32 of said shoulder is spaced fartherthan the rear end of the left-hand longitudinaledge of said portign of said shoulder forwardly from the rearward, extremity of said shoulder, and the surface 28 of theflange 27 extends substantially from the rear end of the left-hand longitudinal edge of said porti 1T32 of said shoulder. leftward circumferentially "of the axis of the valve and somewhat in a forward direction substantially to the rear end of the right-hand longitudinal edge of said por tion of said shoulder.

The relative arrangement of the parts is such that the rear part of the wider portionsaid pin in preventing material or objec-' .tionable circumferential displacement of the valve in opposite directions during endwise movement of the valve to the seat 15 from its f ly open position; that the narrower portion 32 of the shoulder B is arranged to cooperate with the pin 29 in'preventing ma-.

terial or objectionable circumferential dis placement of the valve to the left in the position of the valve shown in Figs. 6 and 7; that the core 18 has the portion thereof which extends from the forward side of the flange 27 to the rear face of the forward head 22 contoured in cross=sectio n', as shown in Fig. 7, as required to permit a limited rotation of the valve to the'right upon the endwise movement of the valve from its ner end portion of said'pin uring said rotation of the valveto the r'ght, and that said pin and said surface 28' are therefore relatively arranged to cooperate in forcing the valve into tight engagement with sai seat during said rotation of the valve.

Therelative arrangement of parts is also such that the valve-seat 15 is somewhat embedded in the elastic'and compressible member 21, as e'xaggeratively illustrated in Fig. 1, when the valve is in its tightly closed position, and obviously in said position of the valve aforceable turn of the valve to the left is required preliminary to movement of the valve into its fully open position.

"n 1 The rearwardly facing forward wall 26 33 extending tremity of the chamber 12, without necessiof the outlet 13 has a recess transversely of the lower portion of said wall, and the casing A has a drain-passage 35 extendin downwardly and rearwardly from a suita 'le point between the'inner end of said outlet and the forward end of the chamber 12, and said passage discharges at its lower end into said recess prefer ably centrally between the ends of the recess. ai recess forms a forward enlargement of the lower end of the outlet 13, and hence the passage 35 discharges into "said outlet. Preferably the relative arrangement of the parts is such that the passage. 3 communicates, rearward of the flange 2 ,with the chamber 12 in any position of the valve; that said passage communicates, between said flange 27 and the baffle-flange 25 and therefore forward-0f said bafile-flange 25,

with said chamber in the closed position of 1; that said bafthe valve, as shown in Fig.

forward of the outlet 13, in the casing A closed, and that the passage 35 is in communication, at its upper end between the rearward head 19 and the baffle-flange 25 and therefore rearward of said baffle-flange, with the chamber 12 in the fully open. position of the valve, as shown in 4.

By the hereinbefore described construction and relative arrangements of'parts it willbe observed that the baflle-flange '25 is rearward, in any position of the valve, of the means for forcing the valve into fluidtight engagement with the seat 15 and spaced rearwardly from said means in the closed position of the valve, and that the pin 29 serves as an abutment for the baffleflange 25 in the fully open position of the valve,as shown in Fig. 4.

the passage'of some liquid d inner end of the wall 26 and transversely of end of said chamber is not impossible,

:of said outlet 13 an interior chamber actuation ofthe valve from its closed position shown inFig. 1 into its fully openposition shown in Fig. 4 the baffle-flange '25 obstructs the passage, in the During the direction of the forward end of the chamber 12, of liquid passing forwardly in said chamber at the inner end of the wall 26 of the outlet 13. However, during the rush or flow of liquid at the rear end of and into the chamber 12 during valve, and more especially during the flow of liquid under pressure into said chamber, forwardly at the the outer circumferential edge of the baflieflange 25 in the directon of the forward cause the use of packing is avoided and said flange'is not therefore, in tight relation to the casing Afbut the drain-passage 35 and the here nbefore described arrangement of the opening of the said passage in relation to the chamber 12 v and outlet 13 participate in preventing liquid, which has passed to and forwardly of the forward side of the baffle-flange 25, from passing forwardly to the forward extating the use of packng. The rush or flow of liquid through the outlet 13 from the inlet 16 in the open position of the valve results in'the creation of suction within thepassage 35, so that any liquid passing forwardly at the inner en fle-flange 25 in opening the valve, or in the open position of the valve, is actedfon by d of the outlet 13 d and between the rearward head 19 and bafsaid suction and thereby drawn from said chamber through said passage 35 into the outlet 13. Also, as the liquid drained by the passage 35 flows into the recess or forwar enlargement 33 of the lower portion s'a'd outlet 13 is arranged to be impinged against by liquid rushing or flowing from theinlet 16 into said outlet 13 in the open position of the valve, objectionable interference with the discharge of liqu'd from. the passage 35 into and downwardly from said outlet is successfully avoided.

'VVhat I claim is:

1. A faucetcomprising a casing having an internal forwardly facing valve-seat and which extends forwardly from said seat and has a fluid-outlet adjacent and a fluid-inlet surrounded by. said seat, a valve having bearing in the easing and controlling communication through said inlet and capable of limted rotation in onedirection uponunovem'ent of the valve from its fully open position to said seat and comprising a core extending endwise of and surrounded by said chamber, said core having a circumferential baffle-flange which is spaced rearwardly from the forward end of and as the upper portion of the rearwardly facing forward wall 26 of the core and forwardly Ifrom tne aforesaid outlet in the fully open position of the valve, and means forward of said flange for forcing the valve into fluid-tight engage-I ,ment with the aforesaid seat during the.

aforesaid rotation of the valve, the casing having a drain-passage which discharges, at one end, into the aforesaid outlet at a point spaced downwardly from theupp'er end of said outlet and is'in communication,

' at its other end, with the aforesaid chamber forward or rearward of said flange according as the valveis in position.

v.2. A faucet comprising a casing having an internal valve-seat and an'interior chamits closed or fully open ber which extends from said seat in the direction in whichthe seat faces and has a v fluid-outlet adjacent and a fluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, a pin rigid with and arranged substantially radially of the casing and spaced from said outlet in said direction acg'd having its inner end portion 1 in said chamber, and a valve having bearing in the casing and-controll ng commun1-.

cation through the aforesaid inlet and capable of limited rotation in one direction upon movement of the valve from its fully open position to said seat and comprisin a rigid core which extends endwise of an is surrounded by said chamber and has a circumferential flange having 'axsurface which-extends 'circuniferentially and endwise of the axis'of the valve and is arranged to cooperate with said pin in forcing the valve into fluid-tight engagement with the aforesaid seat during said rotation of the valve, said core having a circumferential baffle-flange arranged between and spaced from the first-mentioned flange and inner' end of the core.

3. A faucet comprising a Icasing having an internal forwardly facing valve-seat and an interior chamber which extends for wardly from said seat and has a fluid outlet' adjacent and a fluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, a pin rigid with the casing and spaced forwardly from said outlet and extending-into' saidchamber, and a valve having bearing in the casing and controlling. com'munlcation through the aforesaid inlet and capable of limited rotation in one. di-

rection upon movement of the valve" fromits fully open position to the aforesaid seat and comprising a rigid core which is su rounded -by and extends endwise 'of'said chamber and has a flange having a surface which extends circumferentially and endwise of the core and is arranged to cooperate with the pin in forcing the valve into fluid-tight engagement with said seat during said rotation of the valve, -said core having a circumferential baflle-flange which is spaced rearwardly from the first-mentioned flange and forwardly from the inner end of the core and has bearingin the casing, van'd the casing having a dram-passa e, d1s-; charglng into the aforesaid outlet an com- 'municating, between said flanges, with the aforesaid chamber-when the valve is closed. 4. A faucet comprising" a casing having an internal valve-seat and an interior chamber which has a fluid-outlet and a fluid-inlet which is surrounded by said seat, and a valve having bearing in the casing and also having an endwise movement from its fully open position to said seat, said casing and of the valve, the shouldered member having the portionthereof which is opposite said face of said pin upon the aforesaid en wise movement "of the valve contoured as re- 'quired to permit a hmited rotation of .the

valve '1I1 '0I18| direction upon said endwise movement, and sa1d shouldered member hating a surface WlllCh extends circumferenti-ally and endwise of the axis of the valve v and is arranged to cooperate with said pin in forcing the valve into fluid-tight engagement with the aforesaid seat during said rotation of the valve. I

5. A faucet comprising a casing having an internal forwardly facing valve-seat and an interior chamber which extends for-- wardly from said seat and has a fluid-outlet adjacent and a fluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, and a valve having bearing in. the casmg and also having a substantially rectilinear endwise .movement from its fully open position to said seat and comprising a r'gid core surrounde by and extendmg end wise of said chamber, said core. and the 'casing being provided in said chamber the.

onewith a pin spaced forwardly from'the aforesaid-outlet and the othenwith ashoulder'which is substantially parallel with said endwise movement of the valve and arranged to cooperate with the P111 in preventing material circumferential displacement of the valve -throughout said movement of I the valve, the shouldered member being contoure'd as required to permit'limited rota-- tion of the valve in one direction upon said on wise movement of the valve, and sa1d sh uldered member also having a surface wvhichextends circunrferentially and "endwise of fthe axis of the valve and is arranged .to cooperate .with the pin "in forcingthe,

valve into fluid-tight engagementwith the aforesaid :seat. during said rotation of the valve.

' a 6. A faucet comprising a casing having rigid with the casing and extending lnto a quired to permit an internal valve-seat and an interior chamber having a fluid-outlet adjacent and a fluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, a pin said chamber, and a valve capable of substantially rectilinear endwise movement from its fully open position. to said seat and comprising a core which is surrounded by and extends endwise of 'the casing and has a shoulder opposite the inner end face of the pin during said movement and in the fully open position of the valve, said core having the portion thereof which is opposite said face of the pin upon said movement of the valve contoured as rea limited rotation of the valve' and also having a surface arranged to cooperate with the pin in forcing the valve into fluid-tight engagement with the aforesaid seat during said rotation of the valve, and a portion of the aforesaid shoulder extending rearwardly from the space between the shoulder and the pin upon'the aforesaid endwise movement of the valve and arranged to cooperate with the pin in preventing material circumferential displacement of the valve in opposite directions-during said endwise movement of the valve.

7 Afaucet comprisingacasing having an internal valve-seat and an interior chamber having a fluid-outlet adjacent and a fiuidinlet surrounded by said seat, a valve con: trolling communication through and having an endwise movement from its fully open position to said seat and capable of limited rotation upon said endwise movement and comprising a core which extends endwise of the casing and is surrounded by said chamber and 'has a circumferential baffle-member spaced from the inner. end of the core and a head spaced outwardly from said baffle-member and arranged to form a closurefor said chamber when the valveds closed. and a pin rigid with the casing and extending between said baffle-member and said head. said pin and the core having surfaces arranged to cooperate in forcing the valve intofluid-tight engagement with the aforesaid seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, the core having a shoulder arranged to cooperate with the pin in preventing material circumferential displacement o the valve during the aforesaid endwise movement and in the fully open position of the valve, and said pin being arranged to form an abutment for the aforesaid baffle-member in the fully open position of the valve.

8. A faucet comprising a casing which has an internal valve-seat and an interior chamber extending from said seat in the direction in which the seat faces and having a fluid-outlet adjacent and afluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, and a valve controlling communication through said inlet and also having a substantially rectilinear endwise said inlet casing when the said flange and said head movement from its fully open position to said seat and capable of limited rotation in one direction upon said endwise movement and comprising a core which extends endwise /of and is surrounded by said chamber and has a circumferential baflie-flange spaced,

from the inner end of the core and having bearing in the casing in both the fully open position and closed position ofthe valve, said core also having a head which is spaced outwardly from said flange andthas bearing in the casing or is out of the casing according as the valve is in its closed position or fully open position, and means whereby the valve is forced into fluid-tight engagement with the aforesaid seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, said means being arranged between the aforesaid bafile-flanige and the aforesaid head. I

9. A faucet comprising a casing which has an internal forwardly facing valve-seat and an interior chamber extending forwardly from said seat and having a fluid-outlet ad jacent and a fluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, a valve having an endwise movement from its fully open position .to said seat and capable of limited rotation upon said endwisemovement and comprising a rigid core which extends endwise of said chamber and has a baflie-flange spaced from the inner end of said core and a head spaced forwardly from said flange and having bearing in the valve is closed, and a pin rigid with the casing and arranged between in the closed position of the valve, said pin (and the core havmg cooperating surfaces arranged to force the valve into fluid-tight engagement with the afpresaid seataduring the aforesaid rotation of the valvefand said-core having a shoulder which extends toward the aforesaid head from the aforesaid flange and is arranged at the top of the core in the fully open position of the valve and adapted to cooperate with the pin in preventing material circumferential displacement of the valve during the aforesaid endwise movement and in-th fully open position of the I valve. K

10. A faucet comprising a casing having an internal forwardly facing valve-seat and f an interior chamber which extends forwardly from said seat and has a fluid-outlet adj acent and a fluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, a valve ment from its fully open position to said seat and capable of-liinited rotation upon said endwise movement and comprises a core extending endwise of said chamber and having a head which'has bearing in the casing forward of said outlet in the fully open position of the valve and is providedwith a member forming the face of the valve and arranged to engage said seat'in the closed position of the valve, said core having 2' having an endwise move has an internal forwardly facing valve-seat baflie-flange spaced forwardly from said* head havin bearing in the casing forward head, and means forward of said flange for-of said out et in the fully open position. of forcing the valve into fluid-tight engage thevalve andprovided with amember which ment with the aforesaid seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, the rear wardly facing forward wall of the aforesaid fluid-outlet having a recess extending'transversely of said wall, and the casing having-a drain-passage discharging into said recess and communicating, between the. aforesaid flange and the aforesaid head,'with the aforesaid chamber, in the fully- :open position of the valve.

11. A faucet comprising a casing which and an interior chamber extending forwardly from said, seat an having a fluidoutlet adjacent and below said seat and a' fluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, a valve capable of limited rotation upon movement of the valve from its fullyjopen position to said seat and comprising a core which extends endwise of said chamber and has a forms the face of the valve and .is arranged to engage said seat in the closed position of the valve, said core having a baflie-flange spaced forwardly from said head, and means for forcing the valve into fluid-tight engagement with said seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, the rearwardly facing forw ard wall of the aforesaid fluid-outlet having a recess spaced from the upper extremity and extending transversely of said wall, and the casing having a ,drainassage extending downwardly from the a oresaid chamber at a point between the aforesaid, flange and the aforesaid head in the fully open position of the valve and discharging into said recess centrally between the ends of the recess.

In testlmony whereof, I sign the foregoing specification.

JOSEPH A. COSTELLO. 

